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Originally Posted by pelathais
I generally agree. However:
1) If a person has had a negative experience with a "legalist" AND...
2) Not much experience around "gays" or a single positive experience with, say a "gay" coworker or such...
... then that person may tend to weight their judgments a little heavily to one side.
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People who have met individuals from motorcycle clubs have thought them quite charming, but wouldn't venture to ride with them. Some people have had bad experiences with motorcycle clubs and would still hang out with them. This all goes back to what I was saying about the Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042), that there were people who had bad experiences with Jim Jones and continued with him and others who also had the same bad experiences with Jim Jones and left him and never returned.
I said all that to say this, people formulate their own opinions and believe what they want to believe for hundreds of different reasons. We see this in everyday life. We cannot compare sexual deviants with an Apostolic minister with just a broad brush statement.
Now when we shift this discussion to autocratic leadership that is extremly abusive than we can speak about sociopathic, or narsistic behaviors, which sexual deviants do fall under.
I must stress that Apostolic Holiness preachers who have wonderful beautiful moves of God and the people in the church love the minister and the minister loves the people. No matter what someone may say about the way that certain church believes, no one can discount the love of God in the services. From the outsider looking in it may look odd or cultish, but if anyone was to spend time with the people in prayer and worship and feel the power of God move they may walk away with another view.
The homosexual community is not that way and you will feel a spirit and that spirit will move but you sure don’t want it moving on you.
Can you compare the two? Just because a man preaches against television or short sleeves does that put him on the same level as a deviant? The question is ridiculous.
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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